The Australian Institute of Medical and Clinical Scientists (AIMS) respects your privacy and is committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
The Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
What is Personal Information and How Do We Collect It?
Personal Information is information or an opinion about an
identifiable individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect
include: names, usernames, usage of the systems we manage, addresses,
email addresses and phone numbers.
AIMS does not collect Personal Information about individuals except
when such individuals specifically provide such information on a
voluntary basis. For example, Personal Information may be gathered from
the registration process for subscription or services and in connection
with content submissions, community postings (e.g., forums), suggestions
and transactional areas.
How Do We Use and Disclose Personal Information?
AIMS collects your Personal Information for the primary purpose of
providing our services and information to you, providing information to
our clients, suppliers and intermediaries in the course of providing our
services, and for marketing. We may also use your Personal Information
for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in
circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure.
When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and
where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and
how we plan to use it. You are under no obligation to provide your
Personal Information to us. However, without receiving certain
information from you, we may not be able to provide our services and
information to you.
Disclosure of Personal Information
AIMS will not sell or otherwise transfer your Personal Information to
unaffiliated third parties without your approval at the time of
collection. At such points of collection, you will have the opportunity
to indicate whether you would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional
and/or marketing information about other products, services and
offerings from any third parties.
Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by
you, we reserve the right to contact you regarding account status,
changes to the subscriber agreement and other matters relevant to the
underlying service and/or the information collected.
We do reserve the right to perform statistical analyses of user
behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of
the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such
information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to or
clicked on their advertising banners.
You may unsubscribe or “opt out” from our mailing/marketing lists at
any time by using the “unsubscribe” function in a communication, or
contacting us in writing.
Use of Our Website
When you visit our website, and the platforms and systems accessed
through it, we may automatically collect information about you,
including details of access, IP addresses, web statistics and other
information which is required to ensure that the site and systems are
functioning properly.
When you visit our website, the server may attach a “cookie” to your
computer’s memory. A “cookie” assists us to store information about how
visitors to our website use it and to make assumptions about what
information may be of most interest to you. Cookies and the data
associated with them do not generally include personal identifiers, but
they may be used, stored and analysed in our IT systems and by the hosts
for our servers and network. It is possible that Personal Information
will be captured in those processes. Your computer, server host or IT
provider may allow you to configure your web usage and profile to manage
what information is captured when using our website.
Security of Personal Information
Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably
protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access,
modification or disclosure.
When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose
for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or
permanently de-identify your Personal Information (unless we are
required or authorised by law to retain it).
Access to the database containing Personal Information is restricted
to AIMS staff members with direct responsibility for customer service or
management of the website. Authorised staff members are not allowed to
pass on information about members to non-authorised staff without the
express permission of the Chief Executive.
Access to your Personal Information
You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and require
us to update and/or correct it if it is wrong or out of date, subject
to certain exceptions and to the extent such activities will not
compromise privacy or security interests.
Also, upon request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to
functionally delete your Personal Information from our database;
however, it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some
residual information because of backups and records of deletions.
If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us on
the details below. AIMS will not charge any fee for your access
request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of
your Personal Information.
In order to protect your Personal Information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
Maintaining the Quality of your Personal Information
It is important to us that your Personal Information is up to date.
We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal
Information is accurate, complete and up to date. If you find that the
information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us
as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can
continue to provide quality services to you.
Choice / Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications.
This site gives users the following options for removing their
information from our database to not receive future communications or to
no longer receive our service:
- Log in and go to My Account
- Under 'Communication Preferences', tick the 'Unsubscribe from all' checkbox
- Click 'Save' to update your changes
Alternatively, you can send us an email to [email protected].
AIMS reserves the right to change this policy at any time by
notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. This
statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do
not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any
party.
Privacy Policy Enquiries
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:
Australian Institute of Medical and Clinical Scientists
PO Box 1911, Milton, Queensland, 4064, Australia
Telephone: +61 7 3876 2988
Email: [email protected]
If we are unable to resolve any complaints you may have, you may wish
to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by
calling 1300 363 992 or visiting www.oaic.gov.au.
Updated September 2024